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January 6, 2026, 04:09 PM - 6 min read
Does the United Nations have any future at all if it cannot fulfil its first promise of maintaining international peace and security?
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January 2, 2026, 01:51 PM - 8 min read
The cluster of coup attempts follows a broader pattern. Since 2020, there have been 11 successful military takeovers in Africa. The prevalence of military takeovers led United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to warn as far back as 2021 of a coup “epidemic.”
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December 20, 2025, 10:51 PM - 3 min read
The keynote session brought together diplomats, ambassadors, UN officials and community leaders for an evening centred on inner well-being, reflection and collective calm.
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December 16, 2025, 03:27 PM - 3 min read
At the United Nation’s Security Council meeting, India dismissed Pakistan’s debate on the issue of Jammu & Kashmir and its resolution in accordance with the UN Charter, saying it will counter “Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with all its might”
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December 8, 2025, 11:24 PM - 2 min read
The committee said it was downsizing its annual aid appeal; seeking $23 billion for 2026 to achieve important goals. The appeal came after the aid and development budget took a major hit following the US's decision to cut funds, despite constant attacks on its workers in conflicts.
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November 21, 2025, 07:58 PM - 2 min read
"Amid all this, we could have expected to see a much stronger role of the United Nations. We are not seeing that, but we could have," he remarked.
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November 14, 2025, 02:00 PM - 2 min read
It said tens of thousands of displaced families are living in tents as the winter draws near, adding that these families are already crowded into “tight spaces” and struggle with “a lack of privacy and limited access to essential services.”
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November 4, 2025, 02:31 PM - 2 min read
The EU environment ministers on Tuesday are to make a last-ditch attempt to finalise an agreement aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas emission targets before the much-awaited UN climate summit in Brazil.
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November 4, 2025, 02:31 PM - 2 min read
The situation in North Sudan is worsening each day after the RSF took over El-Fasher city, massacring 460 people on Sunday, a UN spokesperson has said.
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November 3, 2025, 08:31 AM - 4 min read
US President Donald Trump on Sunday reaffirmed his decision to restart nuclear testing in the United States, insisting that despite the country possessing enough weapons “to blow up the world 150 times,” testing is necessary to counter the nuclear ambitions of Russia and China.
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October 26, 2025, 07:17 PM - 3 min read
In a reinforcing manner making its point, India today asserted that democracy is an “alien” concept for Pakistan, and called upon Islamabad to end grave human rights violations in territories under its illegal occupation, where the population is in “open revolt” against military occupation, repression, brutality and exploitation. It also maintained that J&K is an integral and inalienable part of India.
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October 25, 2025, 04:46 PM - 2 min read
The UN members are likely to sign a cybercrime treaty on Saturday in Hanoi despite the opposition from an unlikely band of tech companies fearing expanded state surveillance.
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